‘Winning against wildings’– funded by Ministry for Business and Innovation

Research team lead: Carol Rolando

Specific research topics

Using additives and agrichemical combinations, look at how to maximise uptake, retention and translocation of herbicide mixes in a range of wilding conifer species. This will provide recommendations on optimised active ingredient mixes for subsequent field testing.

In collaboration with DOC, field trials completed to assess targeting efficiency of a novel helicopter spot application system to efficiently treat clumped but dispersed wilding conifer populations.

Research Lead

Scion

Members of the NZ Wilding Conifer Trust spend millions of dollars each year on wilding control across New Zealand. From 2016, significant extra funding and coordination was brought to this work by the government’s National Wilding Conifer Control Programme. A number of organisations are involved in wilding conifer research, which is co-funded by government and NZ Wilding Conifer Trust members.